It seems to me that if there be not reasons of conscience obliging a good man to speak out, there are always reasons of prudence which should make a wise man hold his tongue.
True, and as happily expressed. To this, however, the honest Anti-Trinitarian must come at last: "Well, well, I admit that John and Paul thought differently; but this remains my opinion."
Query XXVII. p. 427.
—Athanas. Cont. Gent.
The just and literal rendering of the passage is this: 'The true God who in reality is such, namely, the Father of Christ.'
The passage admits of a somewhat different interpretation from this of Waterland's, and of equal, if not greater, force against the Arian notion: namely, taking
distinctively from
—the